everyone dreams,
not of riches, but
of becoming
a meme.
Don't think
wishing stars,
think bondage constellations.
All the children
"vibe so hard"
with Rumpelstiltskin's
POV.
*
Everyone
wants to make
something out of nothing.
Some would go
so far as to say
that truth
is a parasite
on beauty;
if they had their way,
some would say
that rhetoric
is not opposite,
but prerequisite
to plague—
that intercourse
is poison;
good faith, contagion's
larval stage.
